KARKAT: SOLLUX, WHERE DID YOUR BODY GO???SOLLUX: hell if i kn0w.ARADIA: oh nooo :(KARKAT: WAIT A MINUTE.KARKAT: WAIT JUST A FUCKING MINUTE, WHERE'S...KARKAT: SHITKARKAT: VRISKA'S BODY IS GONE TOO!DAVE: waitDAVE: shes dead tooTEREZI: 3R...DAVE: you guys are so messed upKARKAT: WHERE ARE THEY?KARKAT: DID ANYONE SEE WHAT HAPPENED??KARKAT: DAMMIT, WHEN THE FUCK WILL I LEARN NOT TO TURN MY BACK ON THE BODIES.KARKAT: HOLD ONKARKAT: OH NO, WHERE'S GAMZEEKANAYA: He Took ThemKANAYA: Look At The TrailsKARKAT: OHHHH FUCKKARKAT: NO, FUCK NO, FUCK THAT CORPSE HOARDING SACK OF HORRIBLE GARBAGE.DAVE: wait has the juggalo troll been giving you guys fits like this or somethingDAVE: like this is a thingDAVE: like a patternKARKAT: NICE GUESS SHIT HEAD!DAVE: oh man one of you has got to sit me down and tell me what actually happened here it all just sounds fuckin amazing in sort of the stupidest way possibleDAVE: i mean like personal tragedies notwithstandingKARKAT: YEAH, HE DOES THISKARKAT: HE SORT OF COLLECTS BODIES AND DECAPITATES THEM AND STUFFKARKAT: STICKS THEM IN BIG SCIENCE JARS, FOR SOME REASON??KANAYA: Im Pretty Sure He Kisses Them Too SometimesKARKAT: NO NO NO I'M NOT LISTENING TO SHIT LIKE THAT, I DIDN'T EVEN HEAR THAT.KARKAT: IT'S LIKEKARKAT: YOU KNOW HOW EVERY NOW AND THEN YOUR LUSUS WILL BRING SOME RANDOM ASS DEAD ANIMAL BACK TO YOUR HIVE FOR NO FUCKING REASONKARKAT: AND THEY DON'T EVER STOP DOING THAT NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU YELLKARKAT: IT'S LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEANDAVE: not reallyDAVE: oh waitDAVE: against all odds i sorta doDAVE: mine actually did do that onceKARKAT: YES, THERE YOU GO.DAVE: when i was really youngDAVE: he made this stupid leather bib for me out of a goddamn horseDAVE: for the ironies obviouslyROSE: Was that the one you mentioned had a pink heart on it?DAVE: yeahROSE: Hmm.DAVE: whatROSE: It's just that with the clarity afforded by my new abilities, it occurred to me just now that dead horse was likely the beautiful pet pony my mother gave me recently.ROSE: It was crushed to death by your newborn ass.ROSE: You bastard.DAVE: well shitDAVE: thats a hell of a mystery no one thought was a mystery and didnt even really need solvingDAVE: but damn if it didnt just get solved so nice workROSE: Thanks.KARKAT: KANAYA WHERE ARE YOU GOING?

So what do we call this pause? I've been batting ideas around all day. We could go with the obvious choice, the MINIGIGAPAUSE. Or maybe, MEGAPAUSE 2: BACK IN THE MEGASADDLE. Or if that makes too much sense, we could always settle on the MICROTERAPAUSE. As you can see, there are so many incredibly intelligent and meaningful things we could call this pause. Deciding how to refer to the pause is an exercise that I will leave to the reader. Feel free to discuss the matter with friends. Or strangers. Anyone who will listen really. If they start to run away, I strongly recommend you chase them.

Why don't we say that A665 begins on 4/13. That's a fun number that we all can get excited about. I have a lot of catch-up work to do between now and then. Not the least of which is drawing the actual content to be posted. But also a lot of gamedev work. Game production is rolling pretty hot right now. Stuff is being churned out almost faster than I can keep track of. Did I mention? I accidentally started running a game studio a little while ago. Whoops, sorry about that. There are all these people being paid to make things happen, and I have to be like "Yeah, keep doing that stuff, everybody." It's getting pretty easy to lose track of how many people work for What Pumpkin. My last estimate was somewhere between 30 and 1000. The true figure is a very frisky moving target.

A6A6A5, a.k.a. Caliborn's Masterpiece, is actually done. It's probably better to hold off posting it until 4/13, when more content will soon follow aftewards. I am sure pausing on that note for months would mess with your head a lot more than the note we're already pausing on. I sometimes feel I have at least a modest responsibility to manage your sanity. It'll be tough sitting on this content though. Tougher than sitting on all of A664 for the better part of a year. I don't think it is out of line to describe it as the best material this website will ever exhibit. It will be all down hill from there, in every direction. Even up.

Speaking of sanity management, way back when, I was pretty on the fence about posting A664 spaced out over months like I did, vs. all at once. Doing the latter in hindsight probably would have been a fucked up thing to do to the internet though. The GAME OVER fallout alone was a bit much as it was. Including it in tandem with the rest of it? Not sure what to make of that. Let's review the CONTENT CRUSH that would have entailed. Bad Anime -> Game Over -> Sadstuck -> Lowas Quest -> 100 retconned panels of oil -> A bunch of other shit -> Punky Serket -> Fantroll Storytime -> 8 password pages -> The Kiss On Horse Mountain -> and finally -> The Punchline. You know, that's an awful lot of baloney to publish. I think the fell-swoop reaction to all that would have been quite a thing to behold, but also, perhaps an irresponsible thing to do to a hapless fanbase after a year in hibernation. I'm told that in 2015, young people are heavily susceptible to "the feels", and trifling with those forces could be injurious to their future development. Wait, did that just sound like something your grandpa would say? Mother fuck, where did I put my cane. Oh right, I snapped it in half from shaking it at the sky.

I may have been in the process of making a point there, but we're going to have to pick this up another time. The comic isn't going to pause itself!!!

Over the last couple months, I have been surreptitiously collapsing several update horses into single, bigger horses. This means A6A6I4 is going to end a little sooner than previously advertised. Same total page count, but finishing sooner. Please consult the important horse calendar below.

So what happens when A6A6I4 is done? I'm not quite sure yet. I'm still working on everything that comes after that. I've written it mostly, but haven't drawn anything yet. There will almost certainly be another pause, but I'm not sure how long it will be yet. I will let you know after 1/19.